James aekell



(No Model.)

J. ARKELL.

SOFT TIE PAPER BAG.

Patented Mayfi, 1884.

NITED- fares JAMES ARKELL, OF CANAJOHARIE, NEV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ARKELL& SMITHS, OF SAME PLAGE.

so FT-TIE PAPER see.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,152, dated May 5,1884.

Application filed September 5, 1883' (No model.)

f0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J Arms ARKELL, of Oanaj oharie, in the county ofMontgomery and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedSoft-Tie Paper Bag; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making part of this application.

Previous to my invention that kind of paper bags which is manufacturedfrom comparatively heavy paper, and used mostly for the purposes forwhich flour sacks are used, has been made with that portion of the bodynearest the mouth or open end of the bag softened or rendered morepliable than therest, to facilitate the tying up (witha binding cord orstring) of the mouth end of the sack after the latter may have beenfilled with flour or other material. Paper bags or flour sacks "thusmade are and havefor years been known to the trade as soft-tie papersacks, and were originated, I believe, by myself and Benjamin Smith, andwere patented to us by United States Letters Patent, No. 48,036, of theyear 1865.

I have learned'by experience and experiment that soft-tie paper bagsmade according to the plan which has been followed in the manufactureever since my prior invention do not possess, to the most desirableextent, the capacity to be easily tied up and securely closed at themouth end by the usual tying cord or band, on account of the tendency ofthe cord or string to slightly slip. The lack of that perfect pliabilityand softness which is to be found in the cotton or other cloth sackrenders the paper sack less capable of being easily and securely tiedup, even when softened with longitudinal creases or partially-crushedparallel strips, such as are used in the formation or manufacture ofsoft-tie bags. At the same time I have found it impracticable, untillately and until the devisement'of a method that I have lately inventedof softening the paper composing the sack, (and made the subject ofanother application for Letters Patent filed simultaneously with this,)to render the upper portion of the sack-body any softer than it hasheretofore been made without great liability 'ing shall have been done.

of rupturing the stock so as to spoil the bag. By my present invention Iam enabled to pro vide for use heavy paper bags or sacks with theirmouth ends so softened or rendered so pliable that they can be tied upwith the same case, and as securely, as can be the mouths of venting anyslip of the binding cord or string,

all as will be hereinafter more fully explained. To enable those skilledin the art to which my improvement relates to fully understand andpractice my invention, I will now proceed tofurther explain the latter,referring to the accompanying drawings, which make part of thisspecification. I

In said drawings I have shown at Figure 1 a soft-tie bag, such as is nowand has for a long time been made and sold in this country. It will beobserved from this figure that the pa: per or stock is softened orpartially crushed by a series of longitudinal flutes or creases only,(marked a.)

At Figs. 2 and 3 I have shown a similar paper sack, except as to thesoft-tie feature, which is produced according to my present'invention,and consists of two sets of parallel flutes or creasing, one runningcrosswise, (marked 1),)

and preferably made first as seen at Fig. 2,

the other running longitudinally, (marked 0,) and, by preference, madeafter the cross-creas- (See Fig. 3.)

In making the transverse flutes b, I prefer to have them not across theside seam of the In the manufacture of my improved soft-tie bag with thetwo sets of parallel flutings or creasings b and c, as seen at Fig. 3, Iprefer to first produce-the cross-flutes b by passing the mouth-endportion ofthe bag along (endwise of the bag) between either a pair ofcorrugated or fluted rolls or between one corrugated and one plain-l'accd roll substantially as heretofore used to make a soft tie bagsuch as seen at Fi 1, and then subsequently passing the same pen tion ofthe bag alongiu thcsamc direction be tween a pair of rolls, one or bothof which may have circumferential grooves and ridges, to roll inthclongitudinal flutes or creasings c.

I have in another case filed simultaneously with this, and to whichreference is herein made, fully described that mode of procedure andthose means which I now deem the most desirable for carrying into effectthe invention made the subject of the claim of this case; but othermeans for corrugating the paper and other methods of forming the twosets of cross jugs may of course be adopted and the order herein statedof torining the two sets of tinting may be changed, without departingfrom the principle of the invention made the subject of thisapplication.

In a paper soittic bag such as shown at Fig. 3, not only will the stockhe sol'teror more pliable than in one such as seen at Fig. 1, but thesuperficial condition 01' the paper will be such that the string or cordtied around the closelygathered portion of the filled sack will get abite in and be held against any slip (endwise of the bag) by theencircling or transverse corrugations or creasings b. The longitudinalflutes serve to permit (as heretofore) the gathering together of thebody of the sack at the locality where it is to be tied round, whiletheeross-creasingnot only augments the flexibility of the stock to renderthis operation easier, but

although when the bag shall have been gath N ered in to tie they may notrun exactly circuniferentially of the waist (so to speak) of thegathered bag, will eiiectually serve as stop-like depressions into whichthe binding cord or,

string will bite, and by which the cord wrapping will be hetter held inplace than it is practicable to hold it in the ease of a soft-tie bagnot having transverse or cross ilutings, substantially such as shown at6.

Having now so fully explained my improved sotutie bag that those skilledin the art to which my invention relates can practice the latter, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A soft-tie paper sack having both longitudinal and transverse flutes orcrcasings, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of August,1883.

JAMES ARKELL.

In presence ot' W. A. SnI'rn, I D. VAN OLrxnnn.

